Inequality and Poverty Re-Examined

Edited by Stephen P. Jenkins and John Micklewright

Includes specially commissioned research from a distinguished list of international authors

Highlights new directions of research in inequality and poverty going forward

Includes discussion and empirical data on both developed and developing countries

Provides a useful overview of inequality and poverty research to date

Inequality and Poverty Re-Examined

Edited by Stephen P. Jenkins and John Micklewright

Description

The issues surrounding poverty and inequality continue to be of central concern to academics, politicians and policy makers but the way in which we seek to study and understand them continues to change over time. This accessible new book seeks to provide a guide to some of the new approaches that have been developed in the light of international initiatives to reduce poverty and the notable increases in income inequality and poverty that have occurred across many western countries in recent years. These new approaches have to some degree been facilitated by the emergence of new techniques and a growing availability of data that enables cross national comparisons not only of income variables but also of measures of welfare such as education achievement, nutritional status in developing countries and wealth and deprivation indicators in the developed world. Including specially commissioned research from a distinguished list of international authors, this volume makes a real contribution to the public debate surrounding inequality and poverty as well as providing new empirical information about them from around the world.

Inequality and Poverty Re-Examined

Edited by Stephen P. Jenkins and John Micklewright

Table of Contents

Introduction 1. New Directions in the Analysis of Inequality and Poverty, Stephen P. Jenkins and John MicklewrightConceptual Issues 2. Inequality is Bad for the Poor, Martin Ravallion3. Measurement of Income Distribution in Supranational Entities: The Case of the European Union, Andrea Brandolini4. Beyond Conventional Measures of Income: Including Indirect Benefits and Taxes, Ann Harding, Rachel Lloyd, and Neil Warren5. Inequality Within the Household Reconsidered, Peter Burton, Shelley Phipps, and Frances WoolleyMultiple Dimensions 6. Inequality of Learning in Industrialised Countries, John Micklewright and Sylke Schnepf7. On the Multidimensionality of Poverty and Social Exclusion, Brian Nolan and Christopher T.Whelan8. Summarizing Multiple Deprivation Indicators, Lorenzo Cappellari and Stephen P. Jenkins9. Robust Multidimensional Poverty Comparisons with Discrete Indicators of Well-Being, Jean-Yves Duclos, David Sahn, and Stephen YoungerPublic Policy 10. A Guaranteed Income for Europe's Children?, Holly Sutherland, Horacio Levy, and Christine Lietz11. The Impact of Minimum Wages on the Distribution of Earnings and Employment in the USA, Stephen Bazen12. Minimum Wages, Training, and the Distribution of Earnings, Alison L. Booth and Mark Bryan13. Government Debt and the Portfolios of the Rich, Bernd Süssmuth and Robert K. von Weizsäcker

Inequality and Poverty Re-Examined

Edited by Stephen P. Jenkins and John Micklewright

Author Information

Stephen P. Jenkins is Professor of Economics and Director of the Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Essex, UK, and Chairperson of the Council of the International Association for Research on Income and Wealth. His current research focuses on income and labour market dynamics, and survival analysis. John Micklewright is a Professor in Social Statistics in the School of Social Sciences, University of Southampton, UK. He was previously Head of Research at UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre, Florence, and Professor of Economics at the European University Institute and Queen Mary, University of London. His current research focuses on labour market flows, education, and charitable donations.